I just checked my inbox and saw this email titled "Don't pay this item !" Is it a scam? I for one never bought a laptop, never visited dell.com and don't use dollars. Not to mention that isn't my address. Why am I getting these stupid emails? I've even been getting some from the Bank of America - or so it says. I have nothing to do with this bank. Using hotmail.

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Dear member,

This email confirms that you have paid orders@dell.com $699.99 USD using PayPal.

This credit card transaction will appear on your bill as "PAYPAL *DELL INC".

If this transaction was not made by you please immediately take the following steps:

Login to your account by clicking on the link below
Provide requested information to ensure you are the owner of the account
Find this transaction in HISTORY and click 'Cancel Transaction'

CANCEL TRANSACTION!

Thank you for using PayPal!
The PayPal Team

Please do not reply to this email. This mailbox is not monitored and you will not receive a response. For assistance, log in to your PayPal account and choose the Help link located in the top right corner of any PayPal page.

Well the email seems genuine but you'll always get god damn impersonators >.< Says email is from paypal@service.com - sounds real enough. And the funny thing is is I don't have a paypal account! And what's with the title of the email anyways?

If you were to click the link that they provided, it would not take you to Paypal but a site that looks just like it with a similar URL name. Then when you login in with your username and password, that info would be stored in their database and from their, your a victim of identity theft.

Paypal will ALWAYS refer to you in the Email by your real name, never as "member" also they won't ask you to prove you identity once you've logged in. If in doubt visit Paypal's homepage directly and never by a link in an Email

lol damn you, I'm Nigerian, man! But seriously, that scam stuff really reflects badly on my country... I guess the desperation caused by most peoples' conditions in some areas of Nigeria and Africa in general because of how it was so ravaged by Europeans could lead to some, if not all, of these scam attempts.